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How to Become Indigenous to Earth Again, with Lucas Buchholz

https://youtu.be/PN_VenCepFQ?si=8fFdOhLc3PnKW1HO What the Kogi teach us about balance, guardianship, and the living world We sit with Lucas Buchholz, author of A Book of Balance and founder of the Timeless Wisdom Academy and the nonprofit Sacred Future. Lucas spent around ten years in relationship with the indigenous Kogi people of Colombia, a living lineage carrying a…

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Building Capacity for an Uncertain World | Voices of Emergence

https://youtu.be/5mW_V9S_3Y8?si=GLX2wb43T_OXnlDn We are living through a time of acceleration, instability, and deep uncertainty. Institutions feel brittle. Old narratives no longer orient us. New ones have not yet fully emerged. In this conversation, Alex de Carvalho and Rudy de Waele share a clear articulation of what Voices of Emergence is, why it exists, and where it…

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Meeting an Uncertain World | A Voices of Emergence Listening Circle

https://youtu.be/EcKRAaS8dEI?si=Z8ux4-PNVMJQ1PgY We gathered for an online community gathering, bringing together podcast guests and members of our wider community for a relational, unscripted conversation. This was a space for presence, listening, and shared sensemaking in a time marked by uncertainty, grief, technological acceleration, geopolitical instability, and deep questions about what kind of humans we are becoming….

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Book Launch: When the Almond Trees Bloom (with Samina Vabo Ansari)

https://youtu.be/VbeS_ctoqUU?si=vW6pNLDEX25IAUdg This is a conversation with Samina Vabo Ansari, an Afghan-Norwegian lawyer with a background in diplomacy, having worked at the intersection of peacebuilding and innovation. She reflects on the global shift of our time and the deeper calling behind her book, A Call to Bloom Before Your Time, in a world that is asking…

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Beyond Urgency: A Practice of Emergence — with Rudy de Waele

https://youtu.be/Th3P0x-o1WU?si=wAJr230UrfRhpdZS In this episode of Voices of Emergence, the roles gently shift. For the first time, co-host and co-founder Rudy de Waele steps into the guest seat, and we slow down together to explore what shaped his path. This is not a standard biography. Its a reflective conversation about emergence as a relational process, and…

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The Caterpillar Melts, the Memory Remains, with Sophie Strand

https://youtu.be/j9UApInsn20 Myth As Biology, Rewilding Masculinity, And The Stories Shaping Our Future In this episode, we sit down with writer and mythopoetic thinker Sophie Strand for a wide-ranging conversation on myth, illness, ecology, and the stories shaping our future. Sophie shares how chronic illness changed her relationship to myth, not as metaphor, but as something…

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From Dystopia to Possibility: Lucian Tarnowski on Designing a Thriving Planetary Future

https://youtu.be/Hn9VywVB8NU We sit down with Lucian Tarnowski, founder of United Planet, to explore one of the most important questions of our time: What does it take to shift from a dystopian worldview into a lived experience of possibility? Lucian argues that belief is a form of technology — and right now, humanity is being “conquered…

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The Museum Inside Us: Regenerative Museums with Lucimara Letelier

https://youtu.be/HIq-zqTI0F4 Ancestral Memory, Decolonization, and Cultural Leadership What if museums were not monuments to the past, but living ecosystems in service of life?In this conversation, cultural strategist and regenerative thinker Lucimara Letelier joins Rudy de Waele and Alex de Carvalho to explore how museums—and all cultural institutions—can evolve from extractive, colonial structures into places of…

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Fred Destin on Venture, Velocity, and What Endures

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhb5fhDkZLc Fred Destin is co-founder of Stride.VC and one of Europe’s most respected venture capitalists. Over two decades, Fred has backed some of Europe’s most iconic startups, but this conversation goes far beyond business. Fred shares his deeply personal journey, revealing how he moved from hyper-performance to presence, from stoicism to stewardship, and from capitalism’s…

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From Globalization to Ancient Futures with Helena Norberg-Hodge

https://youtu.be/05F5_-E5XEE Reclaiming connection, community, and the wisdom of place We sit with Helena Norberg-Hodge, a pioneer of the localization movement, founder and director of Local Futures, and author of Ancient Futures: Learning from Ladakh. Helena begins by naming a painful truth she has witnessed on every continent over the last forty years: young people everywhere…

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